Twelve companies have joined Drop it so far, a campaign to encourage people to use tap water.
Pouya Parsafar was already questioning his company’s use of bottled water when he came across an awareness campaign that promoted switching to tap water.
He seized the opportunity and for five months, his IT company, Enterprise Systems Trading, has used a filtering system.
Before the switch, the company would go through 12 five-gallon bottles per month and 2,000 half-litre ones, said Mr Parsafar, managing director of the company, which has 30 employees.
Read more about it in The National:
https://www.thenational.ae/uae/environment/uae-campaign-encourages-switch-from-bottled-to-tap-water-1.17445